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Quotation from Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“when you are an earl, see to it that you are a better earl than I have been!”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (spoken by The Earl of Dorincourt)

Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Frances Hodgson Burnett

Asked how he finds out about his tenants, the Earl can only answer that his agent Newick does it, and turns uneasily for home.

Citation: "when you are an earl, see to it that you are a better earl than I have been!" — Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg text). (id little-lord-fauntleroy-q4)

Portrait: Fauntleroy-FC-1886, Reginald Birch (illustrator); Charles Scribner's Sons, Public domain.

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